These delicious pastries are made with puff pastry with a filling of potatoes, cottage cheese and onions. The cottage cheese can be replaced with feta cheese, ricotta cheese etc.Vegetables can be replaced with minced beef or chicken.

The name biryani or biriani is derived from the Persian word beryā(n) which means "fried" or "roasted". Biryani is a family of Middle Eastern, Southern Asian dishes made from a mixture of spices, rice (usually basmati), meat/vegetables and yogurt.